How The Government Signs Off The Internet

This shutdown is rather unprecedented — not only because of the nature of the fight between the two parties, but also because this is the first shutdown in the era of the modern Internet and social media.

This is how USA.gov, the official site for government services, put out notice:

USA.gov

Various government agencies posted messages like this one from the U.S. Department of Agriculture:

USDA.gov

And in the age of social media, almost all government agencies signed off on Twitter. Most of them did so with a message similar to this one, from NASA:

Twitter/@NASA

NASA also signed off on Instagram:

Instagram/NASA

But this is the account loss that could really doom us:

Twitter/@AsteroidWatch

Here's another version, from the Department of Agriculture:

Twitter/@USDA

There is at least one site, though, that's still up and running. And coincidentally, it's the subject that both parties are fighting about. But even that site has had its glitches.